I graduated last May with a journalism degree from UW-Madison and I wasn’t quite ready to start writing for the Globe Gazette in Mason City, Iowa. So I decided to do some traveling.

I spent six months as an English teacher in a small town called Chaiyaphum in northeastern Thailand. After a bit of traveling in Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia, I am now living in Yangzhou, China. I’ll be in China for the next year, teaching at a technical college in Yangzhou and doing as much traveling as I can until I go back to the States and start writing for newspapers again.